About a week ago a few of us went along to help volunteer for the day with an organization call Restoration Ministries. This place is awesome and they do a lot of amazing work in the slums (favelas). During the week they switch between doing house visits one day to a block party for the kids another day. During the house to house time they will pray for people and invite the kids to come to a week camp they run or invite them to the block parties. And then the block party days they sing and play games and hand out prizes to the kids. The craziest thing is this ministry is run by a handful of staff and they're weeks are so busy. The day I helped out was a block party day. The kids were so precious and we played jump-rope and sang silly songs with them. Its really cool to see the way this ministry has had an impact in the slums and to see the kids singing bible songs and really intently listening.
During a little bible story puppet skit they put on, I was watching one little boy and his eyes were fixed on them the entire time. He was paying such close attention and soaking in everything. They then said a prayer and I watched him slowly open his palms to the Lord. It was the sweetest thing to see and I found out later his name was Eric. I could tell the Lord touched his heart that day, as young as he was, and I'm going to continue to pray for that sweet little boy :) Below are some pictures from that day.
About a week ago a few of us went along to help volunteer for the day with an organization call Restoration Ministries. This place is awesome and they do a lot of amazing work in the slums (favelas). During the week they switch between doing house visits one day to a block party for the kids another day. During the house to house time they will pray for people and invite the kids to come to a week camp they run or invite them to the block parties. And then the block party days they sing and play games and hand out prizes to the kids. The craziest thing is this ministry is run by a handful of staff and they're weeks are so busy. The day I helped out was a block party day. The kids were so precious and we played jump-rope and sang silly songs with them. Its really cool to see the way this ministry has had an impact in the slums and to see the kids singing bible songs and really intently listening. 
During a little bible story puppet skit they put on, I was watching one little boy and his eyes were fixed on them the entire time. He was paying such close attention and soaking in everything. They then said a prayer and I watched him slowly open his palms to the Lord. It was the sweetest thing to see and I found out later his name was Eric. I could tell the Lord touched his heart that day, as young as he was, and I'm going to continue to pray for that sweet little boy :) Below are some pictures from that day.
:) Amen. Praying for ya.
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